Morphine / Opiates Drug Tests

Opiates such as heroin, morphine, and codeine are derived from the resin of opium poppy. Heroin is quickly metabolized to morphine. Thus, morphine and morphine glucuronide might both be found in the urine of a person who has taken only heroin. The body also changes codeine to morphine. Thus the presence of morphine (or the metabolite, morphine glucuronide) in the urine indicates heroin, morphine .
and/or codeine use. Urine based screening tests for drugs of abuse range from simple immunoassay tests to complex analytical procedures. The speed and sensitivity of immunoassays have made them the most widely accepted method for screening urine for drugs of abuse. Rapid OPI and MOR Test Dip Cards and Cassettes are based on the principle of the highly specific immunochemical reactions of antigens and antibodies which are used for the analysis of specific compounds in biological fluids. This test is a rapid, visual, competitive immunoassay that can be used for the qualitative detection of morphine in human urine at 300 ng/mL or 2000 ng/mL cut-off concentration.